AUTRE
France is the guest country of Porto Design Biennale ’21. Through a diversified program of radio talks, exhibitions, installations and social projects, curators Caroline Naphegyi and Sam Baron will seek to foster citizens’ participation.
France is the guest country of Porto Design Biennale ’21. Through a diversified program of radio talks, exhibitions, installations and social projects, curators Caroline Naphegyi and Sam Baron will seek to foster citizens’ participation.
Following the surrealist strategy of the cadavre exquis, Autre asked French and Portuguese artists, designers, and thinkers to develop creative work based on a mix of objects collected in Porto.
The results of this process will be shown during the biennale under different formats: a radio program where French and Portuguese cultures will meet; exhibitions and installations held at the Museu Soares dos Reis and its surroundings; and a social initiative where design becomes a tool to help feed and support people in need.
Curators: Sam Baron, Caroline Naphegyi
AUTREMONDE
02/06 – 25/07
Exhibition
Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Porto
French design is a continuation of the decorative arts culture and has an undeniable cultural legacy related to the manufactured objects of daily use. The Soares dos Reis Museum is one of the most important museums in Porto. Its century-old camellias garden and the adjacent Velódromo Maria Amélia, where cycling events were held, tennis was played and strolled in the vegetable garden. In this meeting space between worlds, a space is open for a conversation between the interior of the museum, its collections, and the outside parts, a natural space where nature grows without constraints, towards the questioning of human impact on the planet, artefacts representations and stories and the idea of what a museum should be. Collecting and showing, conserving and communicating, studying and connecting, contemplating and circulating, are some of the dialectics explored in this exhibition.
Curators: Sam Baron, Caroline Naphegyi
AUTREMONDE
02/06 – 25/07
Exhibition
Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Porto
French design is a continuation of the decorative arts culture and has an undeniable cultural legacy related to the manufactured objects of daily use. The Soares dos Reis Museum is one of the most important museums in Porto. Its century-old camellias garden and the adjacent Velódromo Maria Amélia, where cycling events were held, tennis was played and strolled in the vegetable garden. In this meeting space between worlds, a space is open for a conversation between the interior of the museum, its collections, and the outside parts, a natural space where nature grows without constraints, towards the questioning of human impact on the planet, artefacts representations and stories and the idea of what a museum should be. Collecting and showing, conserving and communicating, studying and connecting, contemplating and circulating, are some of the dialectics explored in this exhibition.
AUTRE-LÁ
02/06 – 25/07
Exhibition
Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Porto
Autre-là is a preliminary exhibition room designed as a welcoming space for visitors, where the construction process of the French program is presented and where the elements gathered during the construction challenges are brought together with the research material, preliminary reflections, readings, sketches and the contributions of each of the actors. This space is also the starting point for a tour into the cities of Porto and Matosinhos, proposed by a guide that brings together unexpected places, some real, some imaginary, some visual and some culinary, some classics, some bizarre…
Curators: Luís Albuquerque, Luís Pinto Nunes
Curators: Luís Albuquerque, Luís Pinto Nunes
